PR4001 – Creative Foundations Project

Storyboard for The Alpha Lighthouse at Whale's End

Our undergraduate students' first group project takes place in the First Year of Studies at Escape Studios. PR4001 – Creative Foundations Project - is a two week group project worth 30 Credits.  In PR4001, students take the skills they have learned in CR4002 - Creative Foundations - Craft, and complete a team project.  

Their task is to create a filmed storyboard, also known as an animatic, for an animated TV or web series.  

CR4002 – Creative Foundations - Craft Module

CR4002 Artwork by Ronnie Kaye

CR4002 – Creative Foundations Craft - is a 30 Credit Module taken by all of our First Year Undergraduate Students at Escape Studios.  

Creative Foundations is a Foundation Module in creativity and creative thinking.  Some software, such as Photoshop, is taught in this module, but the main focus is to explore fresh and original ideas.

CR4002 is broken down into a number of "mini modules", including Movement & Narrative, Photography & Composition, Cinematography & Lighting, Art Foundation and TRAP - (Teamwork, academic writing, and presentation skills). 

VX4001 - 2D VFX - 1st Year Compositing Module

Student work - before (top) and after (bottom)

VX4001 - 2D VFX is a 1st Year Compositing Module, part of the First Year of Undergraduate Study at Escape Studios.

VX4001 one of the modules which must be completed by all our first year undergraduate students, whether they are studying The Art of Animation, Games or Visual Effects.

 
Compositing is the art of combining different images to create a single, cohesive and believable image. This can be done to create realistic or fantastical scenes, or to simply improve the look of an image.  VX4001 is taught by Lorenzo Mannicia.

VX4002 - First Year 3D VFX Module

VX4002 - create a photorealistic object 

VX4002 is a four week module taken by all of our First Year Undergraduate Students at Escape Studios. It is worth 15 credits. 

VX4002 introduces students to the basics of the 3D pipeline. Students learn 3D modelling, texturing and lighting in Autodesk Maya.

VX4002 is about mastering the 3D VFX pipeline, aiming at the kind of photorealistic style which dominates work in the visual effects industry.

Meet the First Year Tutors at Escape Studios

First Year Tutors at Escape Studios

Who Teaches the First Year Undergraduate Animation, Games and VFX students at Escape Studios?  Our first year at Escape Studios is the same for all our undergraduate students, whether they are studying animation, games, or visual effects.

That means that in the first year of studies ("Level 4"), all our students study a broad, flexible curriculum, enabling everyone to understand the whole animation, games and VFX pipeline - before committing to a single specialism in their second year of studies.  

AN4001 "Animation One" is Back Jan 2023

 

For our first year undergraduates, our core animation module - Animation 1 - started last week.  AN4001 is a 15 Credit module that teaches all our first year students the fundamentals of character and creature animation. The module lasts four weeks, and covers all the basic principles of animation. To see some of the best work done by our first year undergraduate animators, watch the short video above, recently cut together by Escape Studios' animation tutor Marc Stevenson.

Marc Stevenson Teaches Anim 1 in Jan 2022

Marc Stevenson

Veteran animator and Escape Studios tutor Marc Stevenson will return to teach animation basics - AN4001 - to our first year undergraduate students in the New Year.

Marc has credits on many Hollywood hit films including Fast & Furious 6, Avengers, Age of Ultron, Moon, and Victor Frankenstein.

Marc has also created a great number of online animation tutorials for our students, which you can find at our Animation Vimeo Channel.

AN4001 Starts 10 January 2022

"Foxy Tail" animation by Maria Robertson

For our first year undergraduates, our core animation module - Animation 1 - starts on Monday 10th January 2022.

AN4001 is a 15 Credit module that introduces students to the fundamentals of character and creature animation. 

The module, which is taught by veteran animation Marc Stevenson, lasts for four weeks, and covers all the basic principles of animation.

AN4001 - Anim 1 - Starts 13 January 2020

AN4001 starts with a bouncing ball

For our first year undergraduates, our core animation module - Animation 1 - starts on Monday 13th January 2020.

AN4001, as the module is officially known, is a 15 Credit module that teaches the fundamentals of character and creature animation. The module lasts four weeks, and covers all the basic principles of animation.

AN4001 - Animation 1 - at Escape Studios

First year undergraduate animation by Matt Wight

A big warm welcome back to Escape Studios to our first year undergraduates; this week (starting 7 January 2019) is "Directed Study Week", when our students get ready for the start of classes.

For our first year undergraduates, our core animation module - Animation 1 - starts soon at Escape Studios. AN4001 (as it is officially known) is a 15 Credit module that teaches the fundamental underpinnings of character and creature animation.

What's in the 1st Year at Escape Studios?

What's in the first Year of our undergraduate animation course at Escape Studios?

Our first year at Escape Studios is the same for all our undergraduate students, whether they are studying animation, games, or visual effects.

That means that in the first year of studies ("Level 4"), all our students study a broad, flexible curriculum, enabling them to understand the whole animation, games and VFX pipeline before committing to one specialism in their second year.